INTERNAL CRISIS IN PORTUGAL

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3140, 19 July 1917, Page 5

INTERNAL CRISIS IN PORTUGAL

A REVOLT OF WORKMEN (Reo. July 18, 6 p.m.) Lisbon, July 17. The Chamber has approved of the suspension of the Constitutional guarantees (already' reported) iii Lisbon and the neighbouring villages, and has also expressed confidence in the Government's measures to suppress 'the workmen's revolt. All classes oJ workmen are cooperating to suspend work for two days. The newspapers have stopped publica-tion.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. BACK TO THEIR HOME-LAND EVICTED FRENCH PEOPLE HETURNING. Berne, July 17. By the end of October 500,000 French people who were evicted from the occupied parts of Franco wilL havo traversed Switzerland from Germany to France — Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. CHINESE ROYALISTS SURRENDER New York, July 17. The United Press correspondent at Toldo states that 3000 Chinese Royalist troops, with their artillery .and aeroplanes, havo surrendered to the Republi-cans.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. A NEW FIGHTING ARM PROPOSAL FOR AIR MINISTRY NOT SUSTAINED. London, July 17. Replying to a proposal in the House of Commons to establish a new Air Minister, with a view to creating a fighting arm apart from the Army as a decisive factor, Mr. Bonar Law said tho Government's advisers did not recommend the scheme—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. PAY OF SOLDIERS AND SAILORS LABOUR PARTY URGES 200 PER CENT. INCREASE. (Rec. July 18, 11.25 p.m.) London, July 18. The Federation of Trade Unions is circularising members of Parliament urging their suppotrt of the Labour Party's motion for an increase of pay to soldiers and sailors by 200 per cent.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable ,Assn. SUGAR SUPPLIES IN BRITAIN STATEMENTS IN THE HOUSE OF ■ COMMONS. London, July 17. During the Committee stage of the Finance Bill, the Right Hon. T. Lough moved a reduction of the duty on sugar to a halfpenny per pound. There was, he said, considerable discontent because, although tho supply of sugar available in 1916 was only 18 per cent, less than in 1913, only 50 per cent, of it reached the consumer. Mr. Bonar Law said the Government had found it necessary to take over.the control of sugar, and thus maintain uniformity of price longer than was otherwise possible. The difficulty was not in getting supplies but in obtaining tvansTlio motion was negatived.—Aus.-N.Z. Cablo Assn.